| Registered: April 7, 2007 |  Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | What i wanted to do:
I want to share some profiles with another member and wanted to create a new database for him, that i can exchange.
What i did:
1. I created a new database and copied my default database into it.
2. deleted all not needed profiles incl. images
3. closed database -> repair database and remove all unused cast & crew
4. create backup of database (this is the file i wanted to share)
The profile includes only around 40 profiles but the created backup.dpd is over 700 mb!
What have i done wrong?
What can i do to get the file smaller? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 2,294 |
| | Posted: | | | | What I do is to do Custom Back-up and exclude Cover Scans, Custom Credit Photos and Gallery Photos (and Reports in my case).
For me that does over 4000 profiles in about 10Mb.
When doing a restore at the 'othe end' I just refresh the cover scans | | | | It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong | | | | Last edited: by Voltaire53 |
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 | | Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | I do a custom backup with only these two options:
include profiles
include cast/crew databases with photos |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting F1Database: Quote:
include cast/crew databases with photos This option bloats the backup-file. Perform a manual database repair and unflag "Preserve Cast/Crew with images". This should significantly shrink the file. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
Registrant since 05/22/2003 | | | | Last edited: by Lewis_Prothero |
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| Registered: April 7, 2007 | | Posts: 281 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Lewis_Prothero: Quote:
Quoting F1Database:
Quote:
include cast/crew databases with photos
This option bloats the backup-file.
Perform a manual database repair and unflag "Preserve Cast/Crew with images".
This should significantly shrink the file. Thanks, that was the right option to unflag. No, the file is about 6 mb. |
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